How long was the nomination period open? Seems like it was only 2 or 3 weeks..

Almost all the active Xixax users check the site at least once a week. If you dont, there is so much to read that you miss many things - including maybe the new thread about the Awards.

The thread about the awards is an announcement (top of the list) so anyone who missed it wasn't looking too hard. I'm not extremely active but I knew the awards were coming because it was getting close to mid-January so I started checking the site often. I was beginning to wonder if the awards were going to happen at all because no one was talking about it. But, then, the announcement came and I was ready for it.

I think people might be afraid of leaving blanks on their ballot. I know I don't like to do it. One just has to remember that one's ballot does not have to be definitive: it is not one's final statement on film for the year. I knew I wasn't going to be able to see Million Dollar Baby, Vera Drake, The Motorcycle Diaries, or Hotel Rwanda before the awards so I just took my time to see some other films that had already been released on DVD that I missed for whatever reason: Before Sunset, Baadaaasss!, Coffee & Cigarettes, and Maria Full of Grace. Not that there was a bunch of love out there for them besides actress for Maria and screenplay for Sunset, but they found several empty places on my ballot.

Having now seen Before Sunset, I realise I'd have easily put it in my best picture noms. And agree with whoever said that it should be the film to win on Xixax. Just because. Its a very special film.

I still have to see Sideways (released here next week) and then I think Ive seen want I wanted to of 2004.

\"I wanted to make a film for kids, something that would present them with a kind of elementary morality. Because nowadays nobody bothers to tell those kids, \'Hey, this is right and this is wrong\'.\" - George Lucas

sorry. i would've nominated had i checked the site more often. oh well. NEXT YEAR!

i would like to have seen dogville and five obstructions on there. and birth. nobody saw birth, but it was one of the best "mainstream" pics of last year. i can't really remember what came out last year. whatever, y'all don't read my posts anyway.

The corpses all hang headless and limp bodies with no surprises and the blood drains down like devil’s rain we’ll bathe tonight I want your skulls I need your skulls I want your skulls I need your skulls Demon I am and face I peel to see your skin turned inside out, ’cause gotta have you on my wall gotta have you on my wall, ’cause I want your skulls I need your skulls I want your skulls I need your skulls collect the heads of little girls and put ’em on my wall hack the heads off little girls and put ’em on my wall I want your skulls I need your skulls I want your skulls I need your skulls

you can't1. send more than one ballot2. vote from different memberships or usernames3. type out your ballot (you have to copy & paste!)4. add anything to the ballot5. change the order of the categories6. share your votes publicly (yet)7. change your ballot

you can1. vote in some categories or all categories2. vote any time between now and February 21

copy and paste, deleting all titles but your vote

BEST FILM The AviatorEternal Sunshine of the Spotless MindKill Bill Vol. 2The Life Aquatic with Steve ZissouSideways

BEST SCREENPLAY The AviatorBefore SunsetEternal Sunshine of the Spotless MindI Heart Huckabees Sideways

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY The AviatorCollateralEternal Sunshine of the Spotless MindHeroThe Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou

BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC The AviatorEternal Sunshine of the Spotless MindI Heart HuckabeesThe Life Aquatic With Steve Zizou Sideways

BEST EDITING The AviatorEternal Sunshine of the Spotless MindI Heart HuckabeesKill Bill Vol. 2The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou

BEST SOUND The AviatorCollateralEternal Sunshine of the Spotless MindKill Bill Vol. 2Spider-Man 2

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS The AviatorThe Day After TomorrowEternal Sunshine of the Spotless MindSky Captain and the World of TomorrowSpider-Man 2

BEST DEBUT FILM Garden StateNapoleon DynamiteShaun of the DeadSky Captain and the World of TomorrowTarnation

BEST DOCUMENTARY Control RoomFahrenheit 9/11Super Size MeTarnationTouching the Void

BEST DVD RELEASEJohn Cassavetes: Five Films (Criterion Collection)The Good, the Bad, and the UglyThe Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Extended Edition)Short Cuts (Criterion Collection)Star Wars Trilogy

“Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.” - Andy Warhol

Question: What about Million Dollar Baby? Will that just be snuffed for noms this year b/c no one saw it in time and next year (b/c it's not elligible). Reason I ask is that, after seeing it, I would say it's the best film of the year. Any chance of having it added to Best Film, considering the circumstances?

How the fuck did The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou make it but Million Dollar Baby didn't.

I'm not voting for any of those in the best film category on general principle.

..and no Clint Eastwood for Best Director either. Lame.

No one had seen it yet. Where I live, the first day that I could see MDB without traveling 2.5 hrs was Friday.

But still..

..The Life Aquatic? Fucking A that movie wasn't even in the top 20 best films of the year let alone the top 5. We've got some Wes Anderson freaks here or something. Throw in Before Sunset in it's place then..

uh, i wasn't around for the vote (not that it would hav mattered) but i think if anyone is gonna cry about anything (and i'm sure at least one of u will) why not make it about sumthing as ATROCIOUS as kb2.. seriouisly.

can we vote to take votes off? like negative votes? talk about fanboy blind voting.